Cold Hearted | Damon Salvatore

seventeen

17. I Went To The Woods

In the middle of an unknown road, a confused Kol woke up, looking around he was confused with his surroundings, the last thing he remembered was Rayna stabbing him at the airfield, but looking around Kol realised this wasn't an airfield, suddenly yells caught Kol's attention.

Looking infront of him Kol saw a bus that was on fire having collided with a car, the car driver was leaning out the car, clearly dead, but there was still people alive in the bus, though he was confused with what was happening, Kol quickly got up and ran over to the burning bus, he tried to open the bus doors, but to his shock he couldn't open the doors, he tried to use his vampire strength but for some reason it wasn't working.

Hearing sirens, Kol breathed a sigh of relief realising help was coming for these people, but he was extremely confused and worried about what was happening to him, is this the hell stone or reality? If this is reality, then why the hell does he feel so different?

"Easy, breath slow" one of the paramedics instructed Kol, having given him an oxygen mask, "Dizzy is normal, and keep your foot off the ground, we're in a cold snap, weather folks say temperature's a record low, what's your name?", Kol didn't reply, he didn't want to speak he was too confused with everything that was happening, first his strength didn't work, then he couldn't breath and now his cold, realising that Kol wasn't going to say anything, the paramedic sighed, "Let's take a look at you", she removed his shirt to the side and looked at his neck, "Ooh, wow! Whoever you are, you are only luck S.O.B, you're the first person I've to survive a gash to the carotid".

"Is it healing?" Kol asked, speaking for the first time.

"Unless you have some kind of super power, I'm sorry to inform but that's not going to heal itself over night" the paramedic replied, putting a bandage over Kol's injury.

"Then it's proven" Kol stated, "I'm in bloody hell".

***

While Aria was sitting infront of Kol's body, still at the airfield, she received a call from Valerie who told her that Nora and Mary Louise had scarified themselves to stop Rayna.

"They didn't know" Valerie whispered, hearing Aria's footsteps.

"What didn't they know?" Aria asked, her voice hoarse from all the crying.

"That Rayna had stabbed Kol" Valerie informed, "That his spirit was already trapped in the phoenix stone, they probably thought they were doing the world a favor".

Aria sighed, "We should bury them, after that we'll go look for Rayna and get Kol's soul back into his body".

Valerie looked at Aria, a sympathetic look on her face, "The stone is destroyed Aria, and Kol with it".

"No" Aria said, shaking her head, "That's not true".

"Yes it is!" Valerie stated.

"No it isn't!" Aria yelled, "Kol's soul isn't destroyed Valerie, you know how I know that because we are connected, we've been connected for the past thousand years, if his soul was gone then I would have felt it, but I didn't, which means he's not gone, he's somewhere and I just need to find him, you can help me or you can go to hell!".

Aria snatched whatever was remaining of the phoenix sword from Valerie's hand.

"Aria come on, be reasonable!" Valerie called out, just as Damon came behind Aria.