Things change

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FUTURE- Kol POV

"Bonnie, you know the spell that you have to do, all we have to do now is wait for the full moon." I said as I watched Bonnie pacing across the room. I felt the same familiar feeling that I had been having for almost the last month, when I would get new memories. I closed my eyes to watch. The cave, the necklace, Henrik, Mikael. Elena, talking to Mikael. The bruise on my arm. She had me channel her to heal myself! We were getting married, officially. Before the full moon. I glanced down to see a thin silver ring appear on my left hand. I needed to go to the caves, I had seen her place something in the wall of the cave out of the corner of my eye while I had been carving her name.

"You just got more memories, what were they?" Caroline said as I came back from my daze.

"Come with me, and I will show you." I said to Caroline, Bonnie was too busy concentrating to go anywhere. Caroline nodded and followed me, running at vampire speed to the caves.

We arrived at the caves and I jumped in the hole, easily landing on my feet. Caroline followed close behind. I walked down the path in the cave to the room where we had been. I walked into the room and Caroline tried to follow, but was blocked by an invisible barrier.

"What- how did you get through?" She asked, getting mad. I laughed, knowing her reaction if I told her.

"I have my ways. Can you see from there?" I asked her, pointing to the wall where Elena's name was carved below mine and my siblings.

"Yes, oh my gosh. Did you- did you do that?" She asked stammering a little.

"A thousand years ago, yes. Now where was that place...?" I murmered to myself, looking around the room for the small crevise where I saw elena place something. I finally found the place, covered by a rock that had been lodged in the opening. I removed the rock to see a piece of hide rolled up neatly tied with a piece of wool. I unrolled it easily, knowing that it was a thousand years old, it would be very delicate.

"Kol, if by some chance you find this, I wanted to tell you that I have fallen for you, well at least your past self. I know that you chose to turn off your humanity after you turned, but I am hoping that you will turn it back on, I love this side of you. I don't know when I will return, if you will find this, or even if you will remember me, but I can only hope that you will be waiting for me. Tell Rebekah that I forgive her as well. I love you, Kol. -Elena."

I read and re-read the letter several times. I couldn't believe what I was reading. She had fallen in love with me, she wanted me to wait for her. Of course, she had no way of knowing that I had already turned my emotions on, only Rebekah knew that, but I was waiting for her. I felt a tear slip out of my eye before I even realized it was there. The motion was not unnoticed by Caroline.

"What does it say, Kol?" She asked hesitantly. I handed her the letter gently, wondering if I was doing the right thing by letting her read it, something so personal.

"You have turned it back on, haven't you? You love her." She said as more of a statement than a question. I felt another tear drop. I wanted her back. I knew she was with me, but this me wanted to be able to feel her kisses and touches, not just memories of them.

"You cannot tell anyone, but your friend won't be coming back the same." I told her, watching her eyes run back and forth from fear to curiosity.

"What, how? Is she okay?" She asked frantically.

"Calm down, she is fine. I would never let anyone or anything hurt her. She will just have a different last name is all." I said, smiling at the thought. It took Caroline a moment to realize what I meant.

"You- she- you're married?!" She shrieked. I held up my hand to show her. She gazed at it in shock. "So you're telling me, Elena actually agreed to marry you, a thousand years in the past, with only knowing you for a month?!"

"Well, my father was going to force us, but she had already had her mind made up before that. So yes, technically she and I are married. Don't look at me like that, it is just as much a shock to me as it was to you, if not more! But if you must know, yes, I do love her." I said as she stared at me like I had known all along.

"Elena knew all of the things you have done when she went back in time, yet she gave you a chance anyway." Caroline said, looking off at nothing. I knew what she was contemplating.

"Yes, and if Elena can choose to look past it, so can you." I said reassuringly, she knew exactly what I was talking about.

"How did you know?" She asked curiously, still not looking away from a distant spot on the wall.

"It's not hard to figure it out, Caroline. My brother is in love with you." I shared. She looked directly at me, eyes wide. "Give him a chance, Caroline, he may surprise you." I finished. She looked at me and mouthed a 'thank you' before handing me back the letter and taking off at vampire speed. I re-read the letter.

She wanted to be with me even when she got back. I was so afraid that she would come back and run directly into the arms of one of the Salvatore brothers and leave me in the dark. She would probably get mad at me for compelling them, though. They wouldn't stop chastising Bonnie and were getting so annoying, I had to make them go away until we got her back, otherwise I would have ended up killing them.

After looking back over at the wall again, and touching it, I left. I needed to go home and tell Rebekah what happened and show her the letter. I ran at vamp speed until I reached Nik's house. As soon as I got inside, Rebekah and Elijah were waiting for me.

"Kol, is there something you would like to share?" Rebekah asked, pointing at my left hand.

"Oh come on. I think you both already know the answer. Rebekah, we need to have a little chat. Elijah, if you will excuse us?" I said, pulling Rebekah into my room. I already had an idea of where Nik was.

"What is this about? Clearly something has happened." She said, pointing to my finger.

"I think you will find out tonight, dear sister. What I wanted to show you is this." I said, pulling the letter out of my jacket pocket carefully, hoping it wouldn't fall apart. She opened it and read, her eyes tearing up.

"She forgives me." She said in shock.

"Out of the entire letter, and that is all you get out of it?" I asked. "What is she forgiving you for anyway?"

"You don't know, do you?" She asked, looking up at me, suddenly frightened.

"Rebekah, what did you do?" I asked a little bit more angry. She looked really frightened then.

"I swear it was only to protect our family! She was connected to the hunter that was going to kill us!" She started defending. I growled in anger.

"Rebekah, I will ask one more time. What did you do?" I said in an icy tone.

"I killed her. We didn't know until later that she had vampire blood in her system. Kol, I swear it, I only did it to protect us." She killed Elena? And no one seemed it fit to inform me until now?

"You killed my wife? You killed her, thinking that she wouldn't come back as a vampire?!" I growled at her. I was angry. My own sister killed my wife, well she didn't know she was my wife at the time, but still. I needed to go blow off steam.