Natali woke up on the couch in Rebekah's living room. She didn't even realize when she fell asleep there. She lifted herself and stretched her muscles from the uncomfortable sleeping. Rebekah was also sleeping next to her, but Natali didn't want to wake her up so she just left. Before she went back to her apartment she had two snacks. She didn't feed for the whole night, they just drank a lot of wine.
Natali opened the door of her apartment, unlocked like usual since no one else can enter if they are not invited. When she entered the house the first sight was three lifeless bodies on the floor in puddles of blood.
Then she went to the bedroom and saw Kol still sleeping on the bed. He spread himself all across the bed, legs wide, arms wide and enjoyed the space. He laid on his stomach, face buried into the pillow. She moved his arm to make some space and laid next to him on one side of her body. Kol felt the bed move as she laid next to him and turned his head in her direction, opening just one eye and their eyes met.
- "Good morning, love." Natali told him with a smile.
- Kol buried his head back into the pillow, "You left me to sleep alone." he murmured in a sleepy voice.
- "At least you had the whole bed for yourself, and I fell asleep on the uncomfortable couch, along with Rebekah." Natali spoke, staring at him intently.
- "What were you two doing when you feel asleep there?" Kol asked, not moving an inch of his body.
- "We talked and drank five bottles of wine."Natali replied, as she changed her position and laid on her back, looking up at the ceiling.
- "Did she changed her mind about the cure?" Kol asked.
- "No." Natali quickly replied, "But I told her about Marcel."
Kol quickly moved himself to lay on one side of his body and propped his head up onto his elbow, as he looked down at her.
- "You did? And what did she said about that?" Kol asked, as his free hand moved beneath her t-shirt.
- Natali slightly shivered at the contact of their skin and turned her head, meeting his gaze, "What was the question? My mind is still fuzzy."
- Kol smirked smugly, "Sure it is." he said smugly, making tiny circles with the tips of his fingers on her stomach, "I asked, what did Rebekah say about Marcel?"
- Natali's mouth opened slightly and she bit her lower lips, before saying, "She said how she doesn't care about him because he doesn't care about her."
- "That is a wise choice, for once." Kol spoke, moving his head closer towards hers, "I'm surprised she didn't run to him."
- "We have yet to see that happening." Natali told him before he captured her lips with his own. He moved his hand up her stomach until it rested directly on her breast. He ran his thumb rhythmically over the side of her soft mound over and over until he felt her nipple come to life under his hand.
- Natali pulled back, breaking the kiss, as she told him, "Let's take this to the bathroom, I want to have a shower."
- "As you wish, darling." Kol told her and flashed them into the bathroom.
After having sex in the shower under hot stream water, they finally washed up and exited the shower.
- "We will need to do this one more time for you to repay for letting me sleep alone." Kol teased.
Natali smiled and rolled her eyes as she leaned closer and kissed him. After they broke the kiss, he wrapped a towel around his waist and she put on her bathrobe.
They exited bathroom and Natali headed towards the closet to find what to wear.
- "You could throw these bodies into the dumpster." Natali suggested as she walked back into the living room.
- "Well, you can do it too." Kol told her.
- "No, I can't. They weren't mine doing." Natali said.
- "I will do that later." Kol informed her as he headed towards the front door.
- "Where are you going now then?" Natali asked confused, as she looked towards him.
- "I need to go somewhere." Kol simply told her.
- Natali raised her eyebrow, "Where?" she asked following him towards the front door.
- Kol turned around, "Forgive me darling." he said before he grabbed Natali's chin and snapped her neck, "I can't let you be in danger." Then he laid her body onto the couch and disappeared.
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After some time Natali started waking up, she put her hand on the back of her neck, massaging it from the pain when Kol snapped it. She looked at the armchair across from her and saw Kol sitting there and drinking whiskey.
- "Where did you go without me? I told you we're not going anywhere without each other, especially with the white oak stake on the loose!" Natali growled. She didn't even know that Kol already has the white oak stake.
- Kol clenched his jaw, "I just wanted to kill that witch." he said coldly, clearly trying to hold his temper, but failing miserably.
- "And did you?" Natali yelled.
- "No." Kol shocked his head down, "She is powerful."
- "Well, you could if I came with you." Natali told him.
- "You know sometimes I really wish I could compel you." Kol burst out.
- Natali raised her eyebrows, "Well I'm sorry, but you can't. And you broke my neck, are you mad?" she shouted and used her magic to hit the glass he was holding in his hands, so it shattered in pieces down on the floor.
- Kol frustrated stood up from the armchair, "I wanted to do it alone. I didn't want you to be in danger." he told her, trying to be as calm as possible.
- "That's one of the stupidest excuses I've heard. That witch can't do anything to me." Natali said angrily, "God, you're so repulsive, one minute we're having sex and the other you snap my neck." and she pushed her hand through her hair.
- "I told you I'm sorry, but that was the only thing that can stop you from going with me." Kol spoke.
- Natali laughs as she shakes her head, "Don't do that again." she hissed, anger and touch of hurt in her voice.
- "They can't raise Silas." Kol replied with a hard edge to his voice, his eyes darkening.
- Natali groaned and pushed herself up, "I know, Kol. And I'm going to kill that little witch, by taking her magic. Silas won't be the reason for us to fight." she told him firmly.
- "She uses expression magic, you know how dangerous that can be." Kol told her.
- "I don't care, Kol. We need to do everything in our power to stop them from raising Silas." Natali said.
- Kol smiled, "Like in good old times?" he asked.
- Natali smiled back at him and nodded, "Like in good old times."
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The two of them found out what Klaus is planning to do so that Jeremy's hunter's mark can grow. The last thing they needed was Jeremy killing vampires that Klaus made and growing the hunter's mark.
It wasn't hard for them to find a place where all newbie vampires were hiding in the shadows from the sun.
They walked into the dark bar, some vampires rose up when they heard that someone entered a bar. Thinking they are food, few of them stepped closer and Kol and Natali could see dark veins under their eyes.
- "I think Klaus didn't feed them well." Natali remarked as she watched at the bloodthirsty vampires.
- Kol smirked, "Shall we get this over with, darling?" he asked, turning his gaze towards her.
She didn't have to answer him, she just zoomed towards the two vampires in front of her and ripped their hearts out in one movement.
- "Two down." Natali spoke playfully.
The other newbie vampires tried to escape, but they had no place to go since the sun won't be coming down soon. Natali followed one vampire that escaped into the back cold storage room.
- "You're not very smart." Natali told him as she swung the baseball bat she was holding and hit him in the head. He stumbled backward and leaned his back against the wall. Natali takes a step closer to him and again smashed the baseball bat against his head, ripping it off of his shoulders. When all newbie vampires were dead, they dragged them into the storage room and tossed them onto each other, leaving the trail of blood at the bar on purpose.
- "At least they were at the bar." Kol remarked as they walked out of the storage room and headed towards the bar for drinks. Kol grabbed a bottle of bourbon and took a gulp. Then sat on the chair and held his feet up on the table, as they waited for Jeremy to show up.
Natali grabbed a bottle from his hand.
- "Hey, that's my bottle!" Kol protested.
- "It's mine now." Natali simply told him and took a gulp from it, "What are you going to do about it? Snap my neck again?" she challenged him.
- Kol chuckles, "I won't snap your neck, but there are other ways for you to pay for drinking my bourbon." he smugly told her as he jumped onto his feet.
- "Can't. Wait." Natali drawled the words as she took a step back and on purpose, she dropped the bottle of bourbon onto the floor.
Kol pursed his lips and narrowed his eyes as she did that, but before he could do anything else they've heard that a car engine just pulled up so they needed to end their game before it even started and hide.
Damon walked in along with Jeremy who was holding a crossbow, ready to kill vampires that Klaus made just for that purpose. They could hear music playing in the background. They strolled in, checking around the bar, but there were none to be found.
Then they spotted a trail of blood leading towards the back of the bar.
- "Something's not right." Damon remarked as they followed the trail of blood. When they walked into the storage room they saw a giant pile of vampire corpses in the corner.
- "Looks like we're gonna have to find some new vampires. What a waste." Damon said, staring disappointedly at the pile of bodies.
- "What the hell happened?" Jeremy asked shocked.
Suddenly there was another voice that joined them.
- "We confess." Natali says coldly standing behind them with a baseball bat on her shoulder. Two of them quickly turned around, Jeremy had his crossbow held up defensively, then they saw Kol entering the room, behind her, "We did it." he says, holding his hands up and finishing the confession.
- "Kol? Natali?" Jeremy says confused, as the memories from Denver passed through his mind.
- Kol smirked, a slight shrug to his shoulders, "Jeremy, good to see you, mate." he greets, "Sorry about the mess. Ugh, it was a little crowded when we arrived, and we prefer more intimate gatherings. Us four need to have a little chat." he raises the bottle of bourbon to his lips and took a sip as he eyed Jeremy with a dangerous glint in his eyes.
- "Why did you kill all the vampires?" Jeremy asks, ignoring the fact that Kol already gave him an answer to that question.
- Kol sighs in annoyance and Natali gives an answer to Jeremy, "To help you, of course. We heard that you need to kill some vampires, so we killed them instead." then she smiles smugly at the two of them and Damon narrows his eyes at her.
- "Care for a drink?" Kol asks them, holding up his bottle of bourbon.
- Damon placed a hand on Jeremy's arm, getting him to lower his crossbow, "He's underage, and I don't like you, so let's just cut to it." he glared.
- Kol smirked at the younger vampire, "You know, my brother bragged about his plan to complete Jeremy's hunter's mark. It was easy enough to track this lot down." he explained, turning his gaze towards Natali for a brief moment, "They were all hiding in the shadows. Now, killing young vampires is easy or old ones, for that matter." his voice went low in a hinted threat at Damon.
- Not understanding the visit of two sociopaths in love - how Damon likes to call them and little intervention of their plans, he asked, "Why? What's it to you either way?"
- Natali's and Kol's patience was growing thin and were dangerously close to breaking, "Because, you fools, in your zeal to find the cure, you risk waking someone very dangerous." Kol hissed at them, but Damon wasn't taking him seriously.
- "Oh..You must be talking about Silas." Damon answered, smirking slightly. Kol didn't seem like his normal witty self who loved sarcasm and horrifying others. He looked like the truly horrified one.
- "What do you know of him?" Natali asked quickly on edge.
- Damon shrugged, not caring, "Nothing. Don't want to. Not our problem."
- Kol grinned, tilting his head, "Isn't it?"
- "Uh-uh." Damon tutted, rolling his eyes. He knew that there is a story that they're going to tell them about Silas.
- Natali chuckled at Damon's ignorance, "A few hundred years back, we came across a group that worshipped Silas. His followers told us that he would rise again, and when he did, he would trigger the end of all time." she told them clearly, hoping they'd get the point.
- Kol looked at the pair and continued, "You know, being immortal, you can see why we're opposed to time's ending. So we murdered all of them." his anger was rising, "And now, here you are willing to risk raising him in your search for the cure. We can't exactly sit back and let that happen, can we?"
- Damon was not impressed, "We're not going to back off of the cure 'cause you two were told one too many scary bedtime stories, you idiots." he spoke, not believing anything they said.
- Kol pushed Damon to the side, taking a step towards the hunter, "Jeremy, we were mates in Colorado. You're a smart lad. Why don't you call off this imbecilic treasure hunt?"
- Jeremy held his bow up, making his position clear, "I'm not calling anything off, mate."
- Kol sighed, obviously annoyed. He took a step back, putting the bottle down on the shelf, Natali glared at the hunter as she spoke, "Well we could kill you."
- Kol continued contemplating their next move, "But then, we'd have to deal with the hunter's curse. And we, we don't particularly feel like being haunted for the next century. Better idea. I'll just rip off your arms."
Natali rushed at Jeremy to attack him only to be slammed against the wall by Damon.
- "Jeremy, run!" Damon screamed as he tried to break her neck, but Natali used her leg to kick him where no man wants to be kicked and caused him to release her. He groans in pain, taking a few steps back just when Kol locked his arm around his neck and put him into a headlock.
Jeremy flees just behind Kol's back, "Why are you stand there? Go and cache him." Kol said angrily, glaring at Natali.
- Natali smiled cunningly, "Love, I've got an even better idea." she told him and looked towards Damon, who was trying to break loose from Kol's tight lock, but he was failing embarrassingly.
KLAUS' AND ELENA'S P.O.V:
Klaus is sitting on a sofa in his living room in front of a lit fireplace and Elena is sitting on the other sofa opposite from him.
- "A bit ironic, you coming to me for help. Weren't your friends just trying to bury me in a cement tomb?" Klaus smirked at Elena.
Perhaps if they'd stop with all the meaningless attempts to kill him, then he'd be more willing to help them.
- Elena looks around exasperatedly before seeming to come to a conclusion on his statement, "This is your fault. You started this when you forced Jeremy to kill those vampires." she told him, her tone serious and she doesn't seem to be worried if he'll take offense to her words.
- Klaus smiled lazily, "And now my little brat of a brother and his lovely girlfriend have gone and made things worse. Well, they never did like Damon." he pauses, "I suppose you think I should do something about them, shouldn't I?" he asked.
- "Call them off, Klaus." Elena demanded.
- Klaus expression changed at her now impatient tone, "You are in no position to make demands, love." Klaus spoke, his voice deep and low, "And how do you think for me to stop them when they have power over me?" he asked.
- Elena shrugged, "I don't know. You can at least try, we need to find the cure." she told him nicely.
- "Whilst I'd like to cure you to make more hybrids, I do have other reasons for finding the cure, not the least of which is destroying it so you lot can't use it against me." Klaus told her.
- "Whatever our differences, we want the same thing." Elena begins and leans forward, "Please, Klaus, I'm begging you." she pleaded.
Klaus smiles at her then rolls his eyes as he gets out his cell phone to call Kol.
KOL'S AND NATALI'S P.O.V:
Kol pushed Damon back into the storage room and placed him to sit on a beer keg in the middle of the room.
- Natali chuckles in amusement, as she entered the room, "I can't believe you're willing to unleash hell on earth, so your precious doppelganger can be human again." she told him quietly, but dangerously, "Too bad she will probably end up dead when Silas kills you all."
- Damon rolled his eyes as he heard Silas' name again, "He's just a myth." he said.
- "And so are vampires, witches and werewolves for the humans that are not informed of our existence. So keep telling yourself that." Natali told him as she patted on his shoulder and moved behind him.
- Then Kol kneels down in front of him forcing Damon to look into his eyes, "Sit still and stab yourself with this, but just a little bit." he compelled him to obey and gave him the stake.
Damon took it in his hand and groaned in pain as he pierced his chest with the stake.
Just then Kol's phone started to ring, stopping their entertainment. He picked up the phone call, Natali listened closely and heard Klaus's voice.
- "Little brother, I'm told you've gone and made a mess." Klaus said casually.
- "Come on, Nik. We were only having some fun." Kol answered sarcastically.
- Klaus took a deep breath, before replying to his younger brother, "Those vampires were for my hunter."
- Kol walked around the freezer, not letting his eyes to leave Natali's, "I'll make some more. There's no shortage of people." he shrugged and kicked one of the dead bodies that were laying in the corner.
- "Where's Damon Salvatore?" Natali heard Klaus' ask and she looked over at Damon with an amused grin on her face.
- Kol's mouth turned into a wide grin and he looked at his masterpiece in the middle of the room, "I gave him a good and proper beating just for old time's sake."
- "Yes. Well, you've had your fun." Klaus spoke softly, but his voice grew harsh with every word, "Now let him go and avoid any more trouble."
- Natali rolled her eyes, "You're not the one who is going to demand us." she told him.
- Klaus cleared his throat, before speaking, "You two, listen closely. Stay away from the Gilbert boy. You understand?"
- "Fine." Kol replied reluctantly, "I won't touch him. You have my word." he said coldly and hung up, then he crossed his hands behind his back and looked at Damon with a grin on his face before he compelled him again, "Very good, darling. Now stab yourself a little bit further."
- Damon groaned in pain as he slowly began to push the stake into himself, "If you're gonna kill me, do it like a man." he sneered.
- "I don't want to kill you. I just wanted to make sure you could be compelled." Kol informed him.
- Damon wasn't going to let Kol break him, "I'm gonna rip out your spleen." he threatened.
- With every passing second, Kol was finding this torture more and more amusing. He chuckled at Damon's words, "You ought to be thanking me. I mean you don't really want the cure found. You fancy Elena. I mean, even more now that she's a vampire. Admit it." he started to circle around Damon, "The last vestige of her humanity is her annoying little brother Jeremy, and deep, deep down, I bet you want him dead, don't you?"
- "Nope." Damon breathed out.
- Kol patted onto his back, making Damon lean forward and stab the stake a little further, then he laughs, saying, "You're lying. I bet you'd love to rip his head right off..And I'm gonna give you your wish." He crouches down in front of Damon and looks straight into his eyes, then compels him, "You're not gonna remember what I say, but you're going to find Jeremy Gilbert, and when you do, you're going to kill him."
Kol pulled the stake out of Damon's chest and in the next moment the two of them disappeared into thin air, leaving Damon to finish what he needs to do.
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