Cold Hearted | Damon Salvatore

sixteen

16. Days Of Future Past

"Sun's coming up, Aria" Rayna said, "Make your choice, Damon or Kol".

Aria looked at Kol, then for the first time this entire night or eyes met with Damon's and immediately Aria looked away, it was too painful.

"Come on Aria, this is a easy choice, if Kol is out of the way then there is nothing stopping you and Damon from being one" Rayna said, "Kol has been alive for much longer then Damon, he has done a lot worse then Damon has, he deservers the mark more then Damon does".

"Kol was the one who stayed" Aria whispered, tears welling her eyes, she never thought a time will come where she had to choose between her past and her future, Aria looked at Rayna, "Damon and I have a past, yeah there was a time he was my soulmate, but he walked away, for five year, it was Kol and me, not Damon, I can't let you transfer the mark on him".

"So you rather Damon die?" Rayna asked.

"Did I say that?" Aria asked, "Damon might not mean anything to me anymore, but he is the reason the triplets came into my life, I owe it to him to save his life, but not on the expense of Kol".

Rayna smirked, "Well, I gave you a choice Aria, to have your soulmate back, but you didn't take it, now you're going to lose both Damon and Kol".

"What?" Damon asked, finally managing to speak after hearing Aria say he means nothing to her.

"No matter who Ri choose, you were anyways gonna send both of us back into that stone" Kol realised.

"Correct" Rayna said, "You both shouldn't have come out of the stone in the first place, now it's time you go back into it".

While Rayna was talking to Kol and Damon, her back was turned to Aria, so she couldn't see what the tribrid was doing but Damon and Kol could.

Aria's eyes landed on one of Rayna's daggers laying on the floor, she looked at Kol, who was already looking at her, knowing she had something going on in her mind.

"Keep her talking" Aria mouthed to Kol, who nodded in understanding.

"If you were planning to kill both of us this whole time why make Ri believe she had an option" Kol said, distracting Rayna as Aria took small and steady steps towards the dagger on the floor.

"She was deciding who I sent back to hell first" Rayna said.

"Let me guess, it's me" Kol concluded, as Aria bent down and grabbed the dagger.

"Correct" Rayna stated, taking a step towards Kol, her sword in her hand.

"Hey Rayna!" Aria called out, standing up.

Rayna turned around and as soon as she did, Aria threw the dagger into her shoulder.

"I can't kill you, but that doesn't mean I can't hurt you and keep you down for a bit" Aria said.

As Rayna fell to the floor in pain, Aria rushed over to Kol and ignoring the pain she felt removing the vervain ropes, she quickly removed them and they did the same with Damon and the trio quickly rushed out of the studio before Rayna recovered.