makin' alright decisions and havin' bad ideas | kol mikaelson x oc

chapter two: dreamin' of all the possibilities

Mystic Falls seemed to have a pull on Annie that she wasn't quite able to shake. As fate would have had it, she kept her apartment and had decided to stay until the unforeseeable future. Her instincts told her to stay, despite all the danger that seemed to lurk in Mystic Falls. While Kol was somewhat infuriating company to keep, he was also an incredible gossip and helped her fill in the gaps she had regarding the situation here. She was hoping spending more time with him would trigger her memories and she'd remember where she had seen him before, but for now, no luck. At least the drama of Mystic Falls was somewhat entertaining.

"Wait, so you don't all live happily together? Then why are so many vampires in the same place?"

Kol shrugged, reaching out to push a few stray hairs behind Annie's ear, making her shiver.

"The Salvatore brothers are obsessed with this doppelgänger lass, whom Nik has no use for here anymore, but he is still here, Elijah is staying because Nik is staying and Beks is staying because she is in love with the busboy of the grill."

"And why are you staying? You don't really strike me as someone who has to be close to their family 24/7," Annie pointed out and Kol smirked at her.

"I don't really know, I guess there's still a lot of trouble for me to make here."

The downside to her stay in Mystic Falls was that it was impossible for her to get rid of the Mikaelsons. Whether it was Elijah, Rebekah or Kol, one of them always needed you for something. The only Mikaelson who has been conspicuously absent was Klaus, but Annie wasn't exactly upset about that.

She always expected him to appear out of thin air while she was taken care of Mystic Falls at night, but apart from the first time, it hasn't happened again.

The only Mikaelson she kept bumping into, no matter where she'd go, was the youngest one. Kol had a knack for finding her whenever she was in the mood for company, which wasn't a common occurrence.

Annie brushed the orchid that stood on her window sill gently, before pouring some water on its soil. She rarely displayed things that reminded her of her mother, but the one thing she always insisted on was a beautiful orchid, wherever her life would take her.

A knock on her door took her by surprise. Annie wasn't expecting any visitors and her neighbors liked to stomp everywhere they went, she would've heard them coming up to her door. No, this one was more of a silent walker, so it significantly reduced the amount of people it could be.

Swingfully, Annie opened the door and she was only 40% surprised to see Kol standing in front of her.

"I don't remember telling you where I live," Annie remarked dryly, leaning against the door.

Kol smirked with a shrug, leaning both his arms on the doorframe, no doubt leaning in as far into the house as he could. "Aw, you'd be shocked to find out how easy it was to find out where you lived, darling."

Annie grinned, opening the door wider. She waited for a few seconds, her grin growing even wider when Kol's expression changed from smug to annoyed.

"Why aren't you coming in?" She asked innocently, before palming her forehead. "Right, right, I forgot vampires can't enter a house until they've officially been invited in."

Kol gave her a hard look and she let him simmer in his annoyance for a while before she gave in.

"Well, then. Come on in, Mr. Mikaelson."

Kol took a slow step over the threshold, before he quickly grabbed Annie, pressing her against the nearest wall. She inhaled sharply and looked into his eyes, furrowing her brows.