Broken Souls

9

Solène was shocked that Niklaus left out such vital information yesterday. "Vampires always fall in love with their soulmates?! How could you forget to mention that? That's quite an important detail."

"Love, I saw how worried you became when we were speaking of how the bond worked. You were concerned the feelings wouldn't be real, yes? I didn't want to scare you." His soft gaze peeked back at her through the rear view mirror.

Her mouth opened and closed a few times, stunned by his perceptiveness. "Well, of course I'd be worried about it!"

"Sol," Finn turned in his seat to smile at the girl. "We don't instantly fall in love. It will be just more quickly than humans fall in love, and rest assured, our feelings will be very real."

His words caused her heart to flutter in her chest, and a warmth spread throughout her body. She was inclined to believe Finn's words. Precious Finn who is still learning about the world around him. Kol sent a small glare to his eldest brother after hearing Sol's heart stutter at his reassuring words. He could do that to.

"Yes, you will be begging us to leave you alone we will drown you in so much affection." Kol added, a teasing tone lacing his voice. Rebekah gagged at her brothers' words causing a Solène to laugh before she realized the implication of the men's words.

"Wait, so, um..." Her face was turning red at the thought of being with all of them. Not like that, but was she to be dating all of them? Did they discuss the situation without her? "Have you all talked about this? Um... us? I guess?"

"Talked?" Rebekah laughed. "They tore half the mansion apart before realizing there wasn't a damn thing they could do but share."

Her eyes widened in surprise, looking up front to Finn. "Even you?" He turned with a sheepish look on his face, offering a weak smile to her.

"Good on you for standing up for yourself, Finn!" She beamed at the eldest, before scanning her eyes over the rest. "Otherwise, we need to work on your problem-solving skills, clearly."

"What?" Kol protested. "Finn gets praise while we get admonished? He fought as well! Threw me through a wall, he did!" The youngest man threw his hand forwards towards his brother.

"Kol, Finn has not been awake as long as the rest of us. He earned some recompense. Let it go, brother." Elijah finally spoke up.

"Ever the noble one, brother," Kol pouted at Elijah. Seeing Kol's expression, she found it quite cute. Childish, certainly, but cute.

"Do you want a cookie, Kol?" His head perked up and turned to her.

"You made cookies? Do you bake often?" The vampire asked as he watched her open her purse, pulling out to container of sweets.

"I did, and when I feel like doing so, which is actually pretty often." She realizes, "Klaus, did you enjoy the muffins?"

"Those were your muffins?" The blond asked.

A growl bubbled up Niklaus' throat, but he swallowed it down. "Please just call me Nik, my love, and no, I did not. Rebekah ate them all."

"Oh," Solène looked to the blond. "Did you enjoy them? Should I make you more?" Rebekah laughed, but smiled at the girl while she leaned closer to her.

"I'd love more of your baked treats. They're just for me, right?" She asked, wanting to rile up her brothers. Well, except for Kol who was trying to see how many of the cookies he could eat before being forced to share.

"Yes, of course!" The witch missed all the men groaning as she turned back to Kol, who had a cookie halfway into his mouth. "Kol," she warned. "You were meant to share." She snatched the container, passing them upfront to Elijah to distribute them.

Once everyone had their share of the leftover cookies, Elijah began to ask how she had so much knowledge about his family, as Niklaus was quite vague about it.

Obviously feeling braver, due to the fact they were all soulmates now, she nonchalantly explained that she was from another universe; one where their current world was a television show. The lot of them, sans Klaus and Solène herself, were flabbergasted at the new bout of information.

Their world was one of fiction to another?

"Rebekah, ask her about Elena!" Nik smiled, daring a glance back to his sister.

"Nik, don't even bring her up! Spoiling the mood with that," her words were brought to a halt by Rebekah who was staring at her digested expression.

"You hate her, too?" She let out a short triumphant laugh before beaming at the witch. "You're my new best friend. As your new best friend, I recommend dumping that low life boyfriend of yours."

"Rebekah," Elijah had started, but he was stopped. The brothers had agreed to ease her into the relationship, since it would inevitably be the first one with so many people. It was also agreed upon to respect her current relationship, if that was what she wanted. Although, having received her call this morning, none of the men were too keen to follow that last agreement.

Sol couldn't help but laugh at Rebekah's boldness and surprise declaration of friendship. "He's been cheating on me anyway," Sol slumped against the seat with a shrug. The air shifted once more. Every vampire suddenly feeling up for a murder.

"And you stayed with him?" Rebekah nearly sneered, almost second guessing their friendship.

"Obviously, I needed the ride. I didn't know you guys yet. Also, he was human and I didn't know anyone else. I was probably just going to ask to be friends if I hadn't met you all."

"Little Witch," Nik laughed. "You are really something."

"So, I shouldn't kill him?" Kol whispered conspiratorially.

"No, Kol, don't bother." She whispered in return before thinking of something. "But if you do want to kill someone, I know of a captive vampire who could use some saving."

Peaking the interest of the Originals, she delved into the story of the Augustine Society, and how they hid themselves amongst those on the Whitmore College campus, experimenting — which was really just torture — on vampires. They could get rid of them and save Lorenzo St. John at the same time. It also popped into her mind halfway through the story about Dr. Maxfield developing the Ripper virus. That certainly needed to be handled. The triple whammy would be getting rid of Atticus Shane to avoid Silas. The Mikaelsons were in awe of their knowledgable soulmate and best friend.