The Vixen & the Fox II

Chapter 272

Showered, Davina and Kol crawled into bed, Davina was out the moment her head hit the pillow which had Kol laying there awake staring at her. Part of him wanted to feel like a creep for laying there awake staring at her but he couldn't really fall asleep. The last month and a half had been stressful for him, which was a burden he accepted because he had gotten himself into the mess but having Davina come after him.

Kol had done what he had meant to do initially after pulling the Nogitsune away from Stiles by using celestial magic, and pulling on the power of a blackhole, which was a void akin to the kind the kitsune seemed to be formed off of. But because Kol had infused his life and body with the kitsune's to hunt Davina down, he hadn't actually sealed the Nogitsune. Just bound it to himself and Vulpecula. It had sustained his life, as the celestial magic flowed between him and the yōkai, but he couldn't really separate himself from the Nogitsune. And the Nogitsune had gone about driving him insane. If Davina had actually been dead, Kol would've just ended it because the vile thing in his head had been actively trying to kill him.

When Davina had confronted the Nogitsune though it had given Kol a chance to pull on celestial magic again, because she was there as his other half, he could align them through her. He could align the stars with her, even if all she did was act as his anchor. Pulling the stars and the darkness to them was difficult, if she hadn't been listening and paying attention to what his magic had been doing then they wouldn't have succeeded. Kol had been lucky he had been reading up on his and Davina's bond; and his lack of bodily control was not a problem if he was working with magic in their stars. It was rather weird, out of body, astral projection level weirdness, but it had worked. Surprisingly, and Davina had read his ques, even when he could only whisper through their bond. They were definitely going to have study up a lot more on their bond, because it was simple and complex, and they were going to need to know more about it.

What Kol really wanted to know though, was how he and the Nogtisune were tied together, and he wanted to know how his life was being sustained without the Cure in his system. Kol wasn't a fool, he was over a thousand years old, by all accounts and logic, he should be dead. So how was he not? And how was the Nogitsune involved with keeping him alive? How would the Nogitsune affect his magic?

"Kol, go to sleep," Davina whispered sleepily.

He smiled a bit as he moved her hair off the side of her face. "I'm just pleased we're here together."

"Me too, sleep," she muttered as she rolled away from him, burying her face in a pillow. He snorted as he rolled onto his back and stared up at the night.

So many questions, he wanted answers, but he didn't know if he really wanted answers. Looking at his hand, Kol saw the new scars marring his skin from the Nogitsune. He could still feel that thing's power, and he didn't know how to quell it. Davina's arm shimmered with the stars of their bond and his arm did too, but he could see it now, the black hole, which was bright and looked at him like a fox eye, reflective and a slit before the stars disappeared and the celestial magic settled. He could feel the void, but he didn't feel as manic or dangerous as he had for the past month and a half.

The coming week the McCall-Hale Pack finally disembarked, which was a massive stress reliever on the Mikaelson Plantation. The Crescent Moon Wolves had been getting antsy about the two invading Alphas because Klaus was tolerated and Hayley was their Alpha, so they didn't know how to handle having Derek and Scott around. Also the McCall-Hale Pack leaving was taking a set of eyes off of Kol; because he wanted them gone. They sort of made him uncomfortable, and something about their presence always made it so Kol could actively feel the void in Vulpecula, he could feel the way the Nogitsune was there, boiling in the stars in a way that seemed to tap into Kol's own emotions. And Henrik's wedding being on Friday meant the entire family was in chaos and stressors, and Kol really didn't need more stress.