The Vampire Diaries: He's The Air She Would Kill To Breathe

Kittens and a mysterious plan

Jeremy and Adriana watched in horror as Kol continued to burn Sherriff Forbes. He finally sighed.

“This isn’t even fun anymore, maybe I should just end your pathetic little life and find a more suited person to torture…like maybe your daughter.” He flashed his most arrogant smile and walked towards the cellar door.

“You can’t torture it out of Caroline. Klaus would kill you.” Kol chuckled darkly.

“He’d be mad at me love, but that would be all. Klaus can threaten and threaten all he wants, but we’re family. The worst he would do is dagger me for another ninety years.” Liz sighed, a sob softly escaping her lips.

“Fine…I’ll tell you.” Kol’s grin widened.

“About bloody time. How do you resurrect people from the dead?” She sighed.

“You'll need a human drained of blood to symbolize vampirism, something of the persons to symbolize their essence, and the tears of someone who mourned for them to symbolize humanity.” Kol clenched his jaw together.

“That’s to bring a vampire to life, I need to bring back a witch.” Jeremy gasped.

“Please tell me you aren’t bringing back Esther…” Kol almost looked offended.

“My mum? Why would I bring back the witch that tried to kill my entire family? I’m not an idiot, Gilbert. No, I have a better plan in mind, something that would even benefit your little girlfriend over there.” Kol looked pleased with himself, thinking for a moment about what to do next.

“Niklaus is not going to be happy with me for this…but let’s consider it payback for tugging me around for over half a century in a box.” He bit down on his wrist and forced his blood into Liz’s mouth. Jeremy screamed no and tried to tug Kol’s arm away.

“Let go of me before I hurt you. Just be glad I’m not killing her forever. This way we all win, if she’s a vampire she won’t be so willing to shoot Salvatore down with that special gun of hers, Caroline will never lose her mother, it’s full proof.”

“She will lose her mother, Liz would never complete the transition! And you never fully answered me, why are you going to such lengths to protect Damon? With her as a vampire you’re hurting Damon’s chances of winning a fight against her, not protecting him!” Kol shrugged.

“Liz will complete the transition if I compel her too. Only reason I haven’t so far is that I was having way to much fun torturing the living hell out of her.

She will never be a bother to the Salvatore family so long as I’m still alive to keep the compulsion going. To answer your question, I told you before, someone I fancy very much cares deeply for Elena, and therefore Damon by extension. She’s lost enough, she doesn’t need to lose them.” Kol’s words were so human in that moment that it completely caught Jeremy off guard. Neither him nor Adriana really knew what to think.

“Who in the word do you care that much about?” Kol smiled fondly.

“I think you’ll find out soon enough.”

Back at the boarding house, Damon, Elena, and Alaric, were just getting home. Elena happily hung the sonogram they’d been given on the refrigerator and Damon pulled out his phone to text Jeremy.

“Where are you?” Jeremy’s response was vague.

“With Kol. Tell you about it later.” Damon nearly dropped his phone, calling Elena over and letting her read the message.

“Why the hell are Jeremy and Adriana with Kol. Don’t they know that he’s dangerous?!” Damon shot her a reassuring smile.

“I’m sure there okay, if they weren’t Jere would have told me.” Elena took a deep breath and nodded.