"you walked into my life like you had always lived there, like my heart was a home built just for you."
-A. R. Asher
"she sees in black and white
thinks in greys,
but loves in color."
-JmStorm
IN WHICH two souls intertwined for the better
OR
IN WHIC...
A/N: Want to point out Kol was about 18 when he was turned!
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03.03 The End of The Affair
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IT WAS WEIRD. A month and a half 'Ariana' spent with Kol in that house but everytime they tried to leave they ended up back upstairs on the bed. They talked about the best thing he ever did--which was create dark objects--that opened a whole new can of worms. They shared a bed in the small house, read with each other, cleaned and cooked, and it was nice; for both of them.
It was normal, as normal as a fake household with a hybrid and a Original vampire could get.
Kol was fixing dinner one night and she was cleaning up behind him when she suddenly woke up in the backseat of Klaus's car while on the highway out of Florida, Kol was back, too, and still at it with his commentary, Stefan was broody, and Klaus was chipper, which made the witch cautious. The blond hybrid was half way to a mental breakdown if his hybrid's didn't work, so the witch decided to leave Kol daggered momentarily with his consent.
He didn't want her hurt by his brother so he decided a few more weeks as a ghost couldn't hurt.
She's been awake a few weeks and has everything she needs. Her clean clothes, food, and other things for entertainment, even if Stefan is her entertainment most of the time. They bicker back and forth, almost got into a real fight but Klaus broke it up. Klaus almost ripped Stefan's head off for changing the radio after they got a dead-end, so 'Ariana' has a permanant seat in front, Klaus usually drives, and Stefan broods in back, Kol's ghost cracking jokes and flirting even more. The air had shifted between the vampire and the witch, both could feel it.
Kol already knew it.
When she was young he only felt the need to protect her, protect her like he did Rebekah, but when she turned seventeen it all changed. She was almost killed, she was bloody and bruised and harshly hyperventilating from being attacked by six vampires, and she looked at the sky as her brown eyes iced over. That night the witch tapped into her wolf side for the first time since her first turn.
She tore them into pieces.
The part the made him feel different was she smiled--relieved to have expressed herself fully, relieved to have survived. She turned into a monster when in her own element of anger, and he liked it because he was the same. Kol killed ruthlessly for so long with a cheeky grin adoring his features but he was outcasted and judged by his siblings; seeing her do the same made him feel better, knowing he wasn't the only one that relished in watching the light drain from somebody's eyes.
For years after that she did the same thing, to witches who sneered at her, vampire's who wanted a bite, humans who tried to hurt her, it didn't matter because she relished in it like he did. Everytime a heart stopped, she felt relieved. The differance between them is she always covered her tracks, Kol not so much.
