Young Gods (A Klaus Mikaelson Fanfic)

Chapter 27- What An Idiot

Belladonna's P.O.V.

By the time Kat, Ellie, and I get back home, it's dark. They had ended up joining me on my trip to Whittmore, claiming that it was the perfect day for shopping. I just really wanted that smoothie and to get away from Klaus. I swear, I don't know what bipolar disorder is but I'm sure if I googled it, Klaus' face would pop up. Even I'm not that hot and cold and I'm just now going through my heightened emotions stage of vampirism. Shit, maybe that's why I asked Kol to see why he was being like that. Is that an invasion of privacy? Probably not.

I leave the girls to go put the shopping bags on my bed, resigning to put them away later, when I feel someone else in the room with me. I spin around to see Kol staring at the drawing Klaus had given me in my mirror. "It really is a lovely drawing," he relents and I nod.

"He's talented. He told me that one of his paintings is hanging at an art museum in Russia."

"You care for my brother," he states and I hesitantly nod once more. "Why did you ask me to figure out what was wrong with him? Why not Elijah? It would've been easy. The doppelgänger has him wrapped around her finger and he's always been closer to him, so why go to me?"

"Honestly?" I ask and it's his turn to nod. "Because I knew he'd tell you. I have a little brother too, you know? Jeremy. I don't really talk to him much anymore because I don't want him to get in the middle of this battle between my sister and me. But I miss him so much and I used to tell him whatever he asked me about. Even when I barely talked, I always had something to say to Jeremy. You're Klaus' little brother, he doesn't look up to you the way he does Elijah so he doesn't feel the same pressure when he talks to you. With you, he can be himself."

"I don't think you really understand my family, Darling," he tells me and I shake my head.

"I think I understand you all more than you realize. I know that while Elijah wanted to leave because of Esther's words, you wanted to leave because you wanted someone to ask you to stay. You knew that eventually, Klaus would hunt Elijah down, needing him for this or that. But you, you feel left out. As if you aren't as important as they are, but you're wrong. They love you, Kol, why do you think Klaus daggered you?"

"Because he's a nutter who thinks that everything has to go his way."

"No, he did it because Mikael was after you. He was terrified that your killing sprees were what was drawing him in and if Klaus left you for Mikael to find then you would be subjected to the same torment that he was as a child but on a far more extreme level. It may have seemed like an act of cruelty, but to him, it was an act of love. You just see the worse side because you're blinded by your own emotions. Trust me, I get it."

"Is that why you're fighting with your sister? Because she thinks she's acting out of love and you think she's acting out of cruelty?"

"No, I'm fighting with my sister because she's a raging cunt. I was just too blinded to see it because she was my sister and I was so desperate for that connection that I would've died to save her when she would've killed me because she thought I was in the way. I guess that turning into a vampire helped me come into myself and when I finally saw Elena for what she was, I realized something. I don't need anybody in my life that doesn't want to be there."

"Perhaps I should say the same thing to Nik and leave," he jokes and I laugh.

"You can try, but he'll likely dagger you."

"Ah, an act of love, he'd claim." I giggle and he chuckles with me. "You know, you're not half bad, Bella. Most of the girls my brothers tend to favor are whiny little twits. I can actually stand being around you."

"Glad I provide the bare minimum but I don't think Klaus cares about me much," I say dejectedly, my good mood vanishing until I see the wicked grin spread on his face.