AfterShocks

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I must have actually taken a nap because I woke up wrapped in Freya's arms

"So I told him ..." a man's voice beams proudly.

"Aunt Freya" I shake her shoulder "Kol is here"

Freya groans and sits up on the mattress with me. "Let's go before he says something to embarrassing" she lightly smiles.

I get up and she follows me down the stairs to join Marcel, Kol, Davina, and Keelin in the kitchen and dining room.

Kol is sitting down at the table while Davina, Marcel, and Keelin prepare dinner.

"How's my favorite niece,"he smiles

"I'm your only niece" I hug him.

"It's been a long time and you've....shrank?" Pretends to puzzle.

"You're such an ass." I sit down next to him and freya sits next to me.

"What mischief have you gotten up to this time? It's rare we're all in the same place. Freya said it was big, come on what is it" he smiles devilishly at me but sadly I can't return it because if he only knew.

"Kol not now." Freya quickly butts in.

"No it's okay," she looks at me completely bewildered. "I've been skipping class to see a girl and the school lost it." I shrug and Freya's face calms.

"Be careful sis if you keep making that face it will stick. " he makes a strange face mimicking her and then laughing at his own cleverness.

"Hopes right you're an ass." She pretends to pout.

"One and only" he lifts his wine glass. He

Davina, Marcel, and Keelin all set down platters of food and Kol's eyes bulge at all the delicious foods. He pours a blood bag into his wine glass and uncorked the wine bottle and mixed it skillfully.

"Will your wife be joining us." Kol looks over at the empty chair and then at Marcel.

"She had an errand to run." Marcel saves and then makes eye contact with me

"Jeez can't even make time for her brother" he pretends to scoff.

"She has good reasons" Marcel sits down at the table across from Freya. Keelin takes a seat at the end of the table next to her wife. Davina sits next to Kol.

"Thank you for this delicious food" Kol reaches down the table and fills his plate eagerly. Everyone else passes the food around the table. Kol pours more wine into his and then pours the same amount in mine.

"Kol" Davina scolds

"What a bit of red wine has never hurt anyone, and what she's like 18." He shrugs and passes the bottle.

"It's not a good idea" Freya stabs pieces of potato with her fork. "And she's seventeen."

"She drank at your wedding party what makes it any different" Kol sips his wine.

"Kol it's different it's not a good idea." Keelin sips her glass.

"What is so different, is it because she's in trouble with school for ditching to go talk to a girl. She's been in so much worse trouble before we're all here let her enjoy it"

"Kol there are so many other factors" Freya defends her wife

"The worlds always ending and if you never slow down and enjoy life you'll never have a moment of pure bliss." Kol pours more into his glass.

I look at the glass in front of me and I wrap my hand around the base and put it up to my mouth and sip it and place it down looking at Freya for support. She just nods probably happy I didn't start chugging it to avoid the uncomfortableness of everything.

"See she drank it and the world didn't end"Kol passes the rolls.

"As much as we thought it was funny to see tipsy Hope at our wedding she's still developing and drinking effects her growth"

"That one glass is why she hasn't grown taller" He pretends to wipe imaginary tears " Since when have you become the D.A.R.E. Spokespeople."

"We have a kid now Kol, and hope is a kid too"
Freya looks over annoyed at Kol.

Rebekah walks into the dining room and sits across from me and next to Marcel.

"Hello nice of you to join us." He waves his glass in her direction.

"Kol I had things I needed to take care of." She smiles softly back at me and it terrifies me what she did deep down.