Cloudy Days [Kol/Kaleb Mikaelson]

Gravity • FIVE

"Oh, I'll never know,
What makes a man
With all the love that his heart can stand,
Dream of ways to throw it all away."

• F i v e •
Gravity

I sat on the edge of my bed, tapping my foot impatiently and nibbling at my fingernails out of nervousness. Klaus, Hayley and Marcel were all out looking for Cami to save her from Mikael's clutches. However, I was more focused on someone else. Kaleb. He went to see Davina. Was she okay? Was he okay? They were with Mikael. But who wasn't I worried about? Even Elijah has gone missing.

Unable to take another minute of the unknown, I picked up my phone. I winced with shame as I clicked on Kaleb's contact. It rang and rang and rang. Just as I was about to hang up before I was suffocated by embarrassment, he answered.

"Darling," he sighed on the phone, sounding relieved for some reason.

"Hi," I said, facepalming. "Um... I heard Davina's friend was visiting her and got kidnapped. Uh, are you with Davina? Is she okay?"

"She's fine, physically," he said. "I am too by the way. If you care at all. How are you?"

"Me?" I scoffed. "Kaleb... I'm glad you're both okay. That's all I wanted."

"Wait now, love. Are you alright?" He questioned before I could hang up the call.

"I'm fine," I said. "Why wouldn't I be?"

"Right, right. I'm the one in danger. But I... I worry about you."

I furrowed my brows, "Why?"

He chuckled softly, "Cause I care about you, Charlie— Oh. Hey... um... look I'll have to call you back in a little bit."

"Everything still fine?" I asked, concerned.

"Yeah, but Davina is... a little stressed. I need to talk her down from the ledge."

"Oh, okay," I mumbled.

"I'll call you back, Princess. I promise. I... Bloody hell, I miss you."

I couldn't help the smile that came to my face at his words. "Bye," I mumbled.

"Bye, beautiful."

With a blush I hung up the phone. My heart was pounding in my chest. A mixture of excitement and giddiness over my crush, combined with the feelings of guilt and self loathing as a married woman stepping out on her husband.

What would Kol think? Part of me feels like he will forgive me. Of course. Because he loves me and... and he's the one who told me to not put my life on hold. The last time we were together he told me not to rush into vampirism until I was sure, and I was doing it for myself not for him. Because he wanted me to 'thrive' when he was gone even if that meant being with another man. Yet, I couldn't help how disgusted I was with myself. This is the closest we've been in the last two years to bring him back.

Klaus had witches and shamans and a dozen others who required way too many things for the pieces to align. And someone more powerful like Esther could only do it because of the collapse of the "other side" that Kol would have been in when... it was destroyed.